However, if payment is demanded, the owner may redeem his life by the payment of whatever is demanded.
OJBIf there be laid on him a kofer (atonement payment, ransom), then he shall give for the redemption of his nefesh whatsoever is assessed upon him.
Onkelos (Etheridge)If a fine of money (if mammon) be laid upon him, he may give redemption for his life according to all that is laid upon him.
T4THowever, if the owner of the bull is allowed to pay a fine ◄to save his own life/in order not to be executed►, he must pay the full amount that the judges say that he must pay.